Permanent and temporary installations, commissions and design objects — a research-based practice in optics and material science, examining the nature of colour through glass, light and projection.
A glass installation that gives the illusion of motion while at rest: 907 chromatic glass hemispheres create a ripple of colour that travels with the viewer, alluding to gravitational waves and Alcubierre drives. Special commission for Foster + Partners / ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai, UAE.
A won public art commission for a decommissioned 15th-century chapel, now a concert and exhibition space. Researching the secular reuse of religious architecture in Belgium, Söderberg Mills found that many coastal churches were repurposed as lighthouses — their bells replaced with light. Looking to the fresnel lenses used in those beacons, he built a glazing system that captures and refracts a cascading range of colour, most alive when viewed in motion.
A site-specific commission exploring the use of light in Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. In the Gent altarpiece, above the figure of the Madonna, a Latin inscription describes her as "the reflection of eternal light and a spotless mirror" — a concept explored physically and metaphorically in this work. Shown as part of Kleureyck at Design Museum Gent.
An optical chamber in which the viewer is multiplied and tinted across a field of reflections — the self rendered as an endless, colour-shifted sequence rather than a single image.
A water-based optical installation that constructs an artificial horizon — a border that can be approached but not breached.
Part of WanderArt, curated by Anne-Laure Pingreoun of Alter-Projects, an outdoor art trail across Mayfair and Belgravia which won Fast Company's Innovation by Design in Urban Design and Best Pandemic Response, 2021. A public artwork that reinterprets typologies of urban construction — industrial tubes emerge from the ground like artificial ley lines, providing five distorted views of Belgravia, referencing the original name of the London borough.
A collection of optical mirrors that generate analogue, split reflections — spaces are redrawn as a series of nested, impossible interiors. Named Best in Glass at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018.
A temporary, site-specific installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in which a single white source is cut into a spectrum, treating colour as something built physically rather than applied as pigment.
Parabola reflects its environment, unweaving ambient light into spectral colour while inverting and distorting the image it creates. It plays with light and the viewer's perception, seemingly placing a digital filter on the real world — a portal that reflects and inverts the surrounding space, creating a gazing pool that subverts our expectation of reality.
A series of water basins, commissioned by Chanel, which explore the notion of scent as an extension of vibration. Water is refracted into spectral colour, illustrating any movement of the subject through space.
Experiments in light and colour use artist-designed lenses to generate spectral reflections, creating optical colours through the physical rather than digital.
A temporary installation for Klanglicht, Graz, curated by Birgit Lill, which transforms the facade of a luxury retailer in the heart of the city — window displays set out to create desire for the ephemeral, rather than the physical — as the display cases are altered into chambers of light, akin to a cut gemstone.
A glass box is recast as a walk-in lens, re-positioning the viewer's experience of light, space and architecture.
A commission by Adidas, CNCPTS and Sid Lee Architecture — a reimagining of the experience of an object through layered, staggered monoliths and optical reflection.
An apparatus that captures and distorts its surroundings, reflections of a space are caught, flipped, and expressed as a series of impossible images, playing with our expectations of space and self.
Shards of light are reflected from optical glass, and caught in a layered glass apparatus — setting out to give light a sense of volume and weight.
An optical mirror installation where the viewer and the space become the subject. Anaglyphic mirrors use glass coatings to reflect a cascading series of spaces and viewers that do not actually exist.
A studio series exploring the plasticity of light, as a medium for sculpting.